Discovering Personal Purpose
The College Admissions Process
Applying Personal Strengths and Individual Perspective
Finding Guidance and Navigating Through Life
A Community, Environmental, or Social Justice Issue that Deeply Concerns You
Being Present and Emotionally Grounded
Realizing Personal Values and Ideals
Community and Interconnectedness
In exploring your theme, you can use your own thinking and writing, pages from the Wayfinder booklet, research and interviews. Here are some possible ways to explore and present your topic:
Create a Podcast Create a Movie Create an eBook
Creating a Website Teaching a Class Writing an Essay
Your project should demonstrate eight hours of work. You will have time in class to work. Here are some guidelines for each type of project:
Create a Podcast – Your Podcast should include your narration, interviews with relevant voices, music, and field recordings of related events or activities. Your podcast should be 20-40 minutes in length. It should be clearly recorded, edited and mixed using digital apps. Before you begin recording listen to these Podcasts for ideas.
Radiolab (Emergence): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/91500-emergence
Radiolab (The Turing Problem): https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/193037-turing-problem
Revisionist History (Food Fight) http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/05-food-fight
(This last one is very important as you are making college decisions!)
Create a Movie – Your Movie should include your narration, interviews, videos of related events and activities (recorded by you or obtained online). Your Movie should be 10-20 in length. It should be artistically filmed and edited using Final Cut Pro. Before you begin filming watch these movies.
San Domenico Earthday: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoJYoHSnwC_SjJMMVhHVm4xLUk/view
The Work (Prison Documentary): https://www.topic.com/the-work?playing=true
Create an eBook – Your eBook should include your original writing (2000-3000 words), quotations and passages from related books, original photographs (that you took) and creative artistic layout (colors, fonts, arrangement). Before you begin your eBook, download and read this one and make sure to listen to all the recordings.
The Turing Test: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-nG5wuIwtEkUEz10vtusyS13zU9-6SwR/view
Create a Website: Your website should include your original writing (1500-2500 words) quotations and links, original photographs or art, and creative artistic layout (colors, fonts, arrangement). Before you begin your website read these websites.
EcoSpiritual Writing: http://hurqalyablog.blogspot.com/
An Inventory of the Meaningful Life: https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/27/best-of-brain-pickings-2018/
Writing an Essay: Your essay should be your own original writing (3000-4000 words). It should represent your own thoughts, beliefs, and personal philosophies explained through stories and examples. Before you write your essay, read these writings.
Emerson (Self Reliance) https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-first-series/self-reliance/
Baldwin (Notes from a Native Son) http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/570f15/baldwin.pdf
Borges (Library of Babel) https://maskofreason.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/the-library-of-babel-by-jorge-luis-borges.pdf
Teaching a Class: You will create a class for other students of any age. Your class should be 30-45 minutes long. Your class must include your own writing,1000-2000 words of explanation or instruction. It should also include a slideshow, handouts with readings, and an activity for the students to do. Be creative! You will actually be teaching this class to a group of students that I arrange.
